“A promise, is a promise. I’m here to trade places with you.”
“What?! B-but… y-you’re…”
The Buddhist monk, Sanzo, pays popular manga artist Osamu Tezuka a visit and tells him that if HE thinks it’s so easy to lead Son Goku and his friends on a journey to India to recover sacred Buddhist texts, then HE should try it for a while. Tezuka soon learns it’s a lot easier to draw manga than to star in it.
From My Son-Goku (1952-59), Osamu Tezuka’s take on the traditional Chinese classic piece of literature, Journey to the West.